Kindler v. Horn
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
JOYNER, District Judge.
This case has been brought before this Court by Petition of Joseph J. Kindler for Writ of Habeas Corpus. For the reasons which follow, the petition shall be partially granted and leave given to the Commonwealth to conduct a new sentencing hearing.
History of the Case
This petition seeks relief on behalf of the petitioner from the sentence of death which was formally imposed upon him on October 2, 1991. That sentence was the result of Petitioner’s November 15, 1983 conviction by a Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas jury of the first degree…
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